Picking Quebec's top traitor

[maldon_road]

Picking Quebec's top traitor

Online contest is all in good fun, organizers say

QUEBEC - A group of self-claimed "young patriots" is urging Quebecers to vote online for the greatest "traitor" to the Quebec nation.

The contest is a mockery of the search for the greatest Canadian launched by CBC in 2004.

The organizers say the non-scientific poll is a way to counterbalance the CBC contest, which they say "hailed Canadians who despised Quebec's nation, such as Don Cherry and Mordecai Richler."...

...Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, father of confederation George-Etienne Cartier and the late prime minister Wilfrid Laurier also appear on the "traitors" list.

http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news...90-0bea42c49887

[Leafless]

Picking Quebec's top traitor

QUEBEC - A group of self-claimed "young patriots" is urging Quebecers to vote online for the greatest "traitor" to the Quebec nation.

Quebec's top traitor would obviously have to be Canada.

But I think the question should be properly be reworded to reflect Canada as a country.

And that question would be: Pick Canada's top traitor and that would be 'Quebec'.

[Topaz]

Quebec's top traitor would obviously have to be Canada.

But I think the question should be properly be reworded to reflect Canada as a country.

And that question would be: Pick Canada's top traitor and that would be 'Quebec'.

How about refining that to the "separatist". When you think of the Quebecers who have died for Canada in the WW1 and WW2 and other wars for Canada than I see them as letting down Quebec. I would suggest to the Quebecers who don't want to be Canadians then move to that little island in the St Lawrence Seaway and you can come 100% French!!

[geoffrey]

Dion should be pretty high on the list with his insulting Clarity Act, no?

[August1991]

You can vote here.

[August1991]

Dion should be pretty high on the list with his insulting Clarity Act, no?

Dion is on the list but I like the choice of Claude Morin at the top of the ballot.

[Canuck E Stan]

Dion should be pretty high on the list with his insulting Clarity Act, no?

You got it.

Their short list of candidates includes former Liberal prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, as well as current federal Liberal leader Stéphane Dion.

Jean Charest also is listed as a traitor for his involvement in the No campaign during the 1995 Quebec referendum.

Gendron said Trudeau holds the top position in the poll, along with Claude Morin, a former Parti Québécois minister who admitted he was paid for a series of secret meetings with senior RCMP officers during the mid-1970s.

Trudeau made enemies in Quebec by invoking the War Measures Act during the October Crisis in 1970 and by unilaterally patriating the constitution in 1982.

Governor-General Michaëlle Jean, father of confederation George-Etienne Cartier and the late prime minister Wilfrid Laurier also appear on the "traitors" list.

[geoffrey]

Dion is on the list but I like the choice of Claude Morin at the top of the ballot.

I understand most of the names on the ballot, but I'm not clear on the history of Mr. Morin. I can't really find that much information either. All that comes up on a Google search is about an unrelated (I assume) ADQ legislator from Beauce-Sud.

[maldon_road]

I understand most of the names on the ballot, but I'm not clear on the history of Mr. Morin. I can't really find that much information either. All that comes up on a Google search is about an unrelated (I assume) ADQ legislator from Beauce-Sud.

Sociologue de formation, il enseigne puis oriente sa carrière vers l'administration publique au le début des années 1960, occupant les postes de sous-ministre des Affaires fédérales-provinciales, puis des Affaires intergouvernementales. Il entre au Parti québécois en 1972 et joue un rôle déterminant dans le changement de stratégie de cette formation qui adopte en 1974 l'idée d'accéder à la souveraineté par un référendum, et non par une simple victoire électorale. Élu pour la première fois à l'Assemblée nationale en 1976, il devient député de Louis-Hébert pour le Parti québécois et assure la fonction de ministre des Affaires intergouvenementales dans le cabinet de René Lévesque. Considéré comme un des principaux stratèges du gouvernement, il quitte la politique active peu de temps après la défaite référendaire de 1980. En 1992, il crée une controverse en admettant avoir reçu une rémunération de la Gendarmerie royale du Canada entre 1974 et 1981 à titre d'informateur. Les ouvrages qu'il écrit par la suite tracent un portrait de l'évolution politique et diplomatique du Québec depuis la Révolution tranquille.

http://bilan.usherbrooke.ca/bilan/pages/biographies/542.html

[geoffrey]

Hmm. That sounds like quite the traitor.

[M.Dancer]

You can vote here.

I nominated Camille Houde

[M.Dancer]

I understand most of the names on the ballot, but I'm not clear on the history of Mr. Morin. I can't really find that much information either. All that comes up on a Google search is about an unrelated (I assume) ADQ legislator from Beauce-Sud.

I use to hang out with his sons in their basement, Listen to Yes, Gentle Giant and Beuax Dommage and smoke the finest hash.....while they went on about the joys of a Quebec Republic.